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Train routes in Tanzania
3 routes · classic 3
3 routes cross Tanzania in the World Train Map atlas. The longest is the TAZARA at 1,860 km; the fastest is the Tanzania SGR, running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line dates to 1914. Every route links to its facts, photo and story, and to the interactive world map.
Open the world railway map →Classic (3)
- TAZARA
Mao-era China’s grandest aid project: the ‘Freedom Railway’ gave landlocked Zambia a copper route that bypassed white-ruled Rhodesia.
Wikipedia ↗ - Tanzania SGR
East Africa’s first electric railway: 160 km/h from Dar’s Indian Ocean humidity to the capital in under four hours, opened 2024 and already packed.
Wikipedia ↗ - Central Line
The German-built Central Line of 1914, a metre-gauge marathon from the Indian Ocean across the plateau to Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence